[Not my release] Biography view

if i play a classic song, i want to see in the biograph panel information about the composerand when i play a rock song i want to see infos about the artist

i make somthing like this

$if2($if($or(%genre% IS "Klassik",%genre% IS "Oper"),$meta(composer)),$meta(artist))

but this doesnt work really good, i put in in biography server in remap meta when i play a rock song it shows nothing when a composer and an artist ist tagged (because the panle does not find the composer; unknown mostly) . if it is tagged only with the artist its ok

[Not my release] Biography view

[Not my release] Biography view

[1 min late] OK, it seems that whole wiki artist page is fetched but only first two paragraphs are available in biography view panel, and there seems to be no way to getting that info out of component (as TF field)

Same for Album wiki and I'm having problem with disambiguation setting (can see how it works as always same request is sent, no matter what I enter in those fields) so using:[%album%] '('album')'as album field, thou sometimes "(album)" appending isn't needed

[Not my release] Biography view

I have a question... I was wondering if I could have biography view cache album art in the folder where the music is playing from. I keep my album art in the same folder as the music as "folder.jpg" I read through the whole thread and nothing really made sense. I'm thinking that it is possible but not sure and I suck at title formatting. Thanks!

[Not my release] Biography view

with the latest version having support to 'Run external script' maybe someone can post the script.

have any idea how it's supposed to work or does it at all?i tried "type some.txt" file with standard output and full path to file for file output method, but it does nothing, although "run external script" is in the source listand it's not mentioned it shipped txt file, so I would guess that it's for future use

[Not my release] Biography view

Run External Script maybe works. (although I have not tested enough )"Command line" form needs executable file like "***.exe %artist%". (e.g. "ping localhost")"Ouput method" is the way to receive the result of Command line.

[Not my release] Biography view

Run External Script maybe works. (although I have not tested enough )"Command line" form needs executable file like "***.exe %artist%". (e.g. "ping localhost")"Ouput method" is the way to receive the result of Command line.

I've been trying to use this feature. I've found this nice little command-line program PageScrape which allows you to fetch part of a webpage. It accepts regular expressions. Unfortunately, I've been unable to make foo_uie_biography display the generated data. The command I use is

[Not my release] Biography view

Thanks for your help. It works with ( and ) escaped, although I realized I would also need something to strip out the HTML tags and I even experimented with wget, grep and sed but I don't like this solution and I think I'll just wait for the author of the plugin to build the page scraping functionality into it .

[Not my release] Biography view

To avoid the illegal character, I tried to define the artist filename as $replace(%artist%,'/','_','*','_',':','_') in the context menu of the biography view--"save image path configuration", but if I close the FB2K and restart it, the setting will change the original setting.I'm confused the difference between this configuration and the setting of artist's "image cache path", and biography server can define to $replace(%artist%,'/','_','*','_',':','_').Would anyone mind telling me the details? Thanks.Joel Zhao

[Not my release] Biography view

There seems to be a bug in that biography panel colours do not always update when import a new DUI theme file. This applies where custom colour is enabled and at least where the biography panels are in the same position in a tabbed layout in the original and newly imported DUI theme – the themes differing in the colours used by the biography panel. This issue depends on the foobar2000 instance and may disappear following a restart and appear again following another restart. XP SP3.

I would in fact prefer it if there were two options. 1. Use custom font. 2. Use custom colours. This would make it easier to change the font size while retaining use of DUI colours and also enable changing colours with Quick Setup. It is not always practical to change the default DUI font size that is currently used when custom colours is not enabled (e.g.to a large size to enable viewing at a distance as this adversely effects other things).

[Not my release] Biography view

I didn't update this plugin in a long time and I've just discovered that when I use the "Get Artist Info from last.fm" function, the information is now stored in %BIOGRAPHY%, indead in %BIO% like it used to be. As I have already tagged a large number of my files with the %BIO% tag, could you please make the tag name user-customizable?

Also, this option does not use the source list set up in preferences, is made on purpose (for instance I would like to store the wikipedia information to the %bio% tag)?

And another thing: when I use wikipedia as the only source, there is no arist picture, even if it appears on the wiki page.